Quotes About Deception

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, it's a scam.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

This car was a very pretty lie.

How?d you get here?? I asked. She winked. ?You?re not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to 'willingly? lend them.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.